<div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/27 Rémi Denis-Courmont <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:remi@remlab.net">remi@remlab.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Le mardi 25 août 2009 19:07:06 Jakob Leben, vous avez écrit :<br>
<div class="im">> The plan is therefore to implement<br>
> obtaining/accessing input items via SD and ML directly in every interface<br>
> that needs SD and ML.<br>
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</div>Yes *but* this does not specify whether each interfaces would have its own<br>
instance of SD and ML. It would be simpler, but in some cases it wouldn't work<br>
at all. In fact, the ML is a single database. And, say an MTP device can<br>
probably only be used by one entity at a time... So I suspect you still need<br>
to manage SD and ML models in the core.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Thus further changes to playlist functionality could be done much easier.<br>
> Eventually, playlist_t could store only a simple list of input items, that<br>
> would represent a flat actual "now playing" playlist, so this would not<br>
> even need playlist_item_t. Of course, every input item to be played should<br>
> then be inserted into this exact list, which I believe we agreed upon as<br>
> the preferred functionality.<br>
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</div>Yes but first the new SD and ML back-ends must be implemented.<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div><br>I am working on a new SD API. Basically, It's just an extension of the current API. It features a new struct to represent a SD item and allows for traveling trees of such SD items, where a SD plugin does the actual info retrieving. Every SD item can be queried for media - so that there can be non-media (non-playable) items, to represent pure "directories" or groups of subitems. If a SD item has media, an input_item_t can be obtained from it. The idea is that ultimately we only get input_item_t that are actually playable, and can thus be inserted into the (future) flat playlist.<br>
<br>The effect of this API is that SD system does not interact with playlist at all. Interfaces shall then implement displaying the SD item tree to the user, and only user's spontaneous action inserts a media obtained via SD into the one and only playlist.<br>